When building small libs/exec on ppc32 I usally get sparse files like so: ls -lsh | sort -n .... 64K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 68K Jan 22 11:20 mgmt_alarmd* 64K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 67K Jan 22 11:20 ne_memd* 56K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 67K Jan 22 11:20 cp_dummy* 56K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 mgmt_pmd* 48K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 69K Jan 22 11:20 ntpdate* 48K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 67K Jan 22 11:20 ne_rc* 48K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 relayd* 48K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 ntptimeset* 44K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 67K Jan 22 11:20 mgmt_backup_tftpd* ... 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 tosv_test* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 tosv_supv* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 ne_rc_supv* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 ne_rc_memeater* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 ne_rc_load* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 ne_mem_ram_test* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 alib_test_psup* 16K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 16K Jan 22 11:15 convert_backup* 15M -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 15M Jan 22 11:20 emxp2_hw_bl* 12K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 9.0K Jan 22 11:18 swu_prepost_script.sh* 12K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 tickadj* 12K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 tclsh8.4* 12K -rwxr-xr-x 1 jocke users 66K Jan 22 11:20 genkeys*
this is binutils 2.25.1 doing in this commit: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=9059a151e33f2f9b7b989a22e63d711a2c8a3 35b;hp=6e7e69e72dc1c53c8d5a8794c845026c48ff343a (Set ppc COMMONPAGESIZE to 64k) This is a huge problem as these sparse file are packaged into a tar file and when unpacked they lose the sparse attribute and will expand to 66K on disk and fill up the my small FS. I guess many packaging tools uses tar so I expect I other people will run into this to. I do wonder why it now became necessary to increase page size in binutils? _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
